cosmography

[ koz-mog-ruh-fee ]

noun

, plural cos·mog·ra·phies.

1. a science that describes and maps the main features of the heavens and the earth, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
2. a description or representation of the main features of the universe.

cosmography

/ ˌkɒzməˈɡræfɪk; kɒzˈmɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

1. a representation of the world or the universe
2. the science dealing with the whole order of nature

cosmography

/ kŏz-mŏg′rə-fē /

1. The study of the visible universe that includes the measurement and cataloging of its objects and structures.

Derived Forms

• cosmographic, adjective
• ˌcosmoˈgraphically, adverb
• cosˈmographer, noun

Other Words From

• cos·mogra·pher cos·mogra·phist noun
• cos·mo·graph·ic [koz-m, uh, -, graf, -ik], cosmo·graphi·cal adjective
• cosmo·graphi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of cosmography¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Greek kosmographía description of the world. See cosmo-, -graphy

Example Sentences

This includes highlighting the knowledge of the past — be it stories, tools or cosmography.

From Los Angeles Times

This view, that the agglomerate of earth and water was not a perfect sphere, was universally accepted in the later Middle Ages, and the new cosmography required its refutation.

From Literature

His map, so Brotton convincingly demonstrates, "was part of a cosmography that aimed to transcend the theological persecution and division of sixteenth-century Europe."

From The Guardian

But however poor, he found means to leave his native city, Genoa, and study astronomy, geometry, and cosmography, at the University of Pavia.

From Project Gutenberg

A strange sort of cosmography had grown out of this ill-assorted reading.

From Project Gutenberg